Folding screen for beds



No. 623,737. Patented Apr. 25, I899. T. J. POWERS.

FOLDING SCREEN FOB BEDS.

(Application filed Jan. 30, 1899.)

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No. 623,737. Patented Apr. 25, I899.

T. J. POWERS. FOLDING SCREEN FOR BEDS.

(Application filed Jan. 80, 1899.) (No Model.)

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Nrrn rates ATENT Erica THOMAS J. POYVERS, OF STEUBENVILLE, OHIO.

FOLDING SCREEN FOR BEDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,737, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed January 30, 1899. Serial No.703,826. (No model.)

To (all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. POWERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Steubenville, in the countyof Jefferson and State of Ohio, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Folding Screens for Beds, of which the following is a specification.

As a screen for beds I have produced an improved canopy-frame for mosquito bars or netting adapted to be supported upon the bedstead to form a close joining with its rails all around the bed, to be folded at its opposite sides upon the top, and having ends hinged to and depending vertically from the canopyframe and in which a section of the canopyframe is adapted to be folded together with its side and foot hanging frame parts over and upon a fixed head frame part, so as to give free access for making up the bed, while access to and from the bed is afforded by folding side frame upon the top frame, making a canopy-frame suited for bedsteads with or without head and foot boards.

The accompanying drawings show, in Figure 1, a vertical longitudinal section of a bedstead having my improved mosquito-canopy frame as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same and the side frame shown in dotted lines as folded upon the canopy-frame. Fig. 3 is a Vertical longitudinal section showing the canopy frame folded upon and over the fixed head-section of said frame. Fig. 4 shows the mosquito-canopy frame in perspective, and Figs. 5 and 6-sh0w the same as compactly folded as separate parts; Fig. 7, a detail.

The canopy-frame is composed of a fixed and a folding part, the fixed part forming about one-fourth the length of the folding part and is secured to the rails and to the headboard thereof, while the folding part is hinged to the top of the fixed head part, and by means of a vertically-hanging frame part the free end of the folding part rests upon the foot-rail of the bedstead.

The fixed head part consists of a top frame 1, secured at the upper outer corners by nutted bolts 2 to the top of the headboard 3, and hinged vertical side frames 4., supported upon the side rails, to the inner sides of whichthey are secured by foot-irons 5 at their innerlower corners. At the head end this fixed frame has a vertically-hanging frame part 0, which is hinged to the top frame and with the side frames form a closure of this fixed head part. This vertically-hanging part 6 also forms the headboard for bedsteads which have none.

The folding part consists of a top frame part 7, hinged to the inner edge of the fixed top part, a vertically-hanging hinged foot frame part 8, which is adapted to rest upon the foot-rail or upon the slat of the bed-bottom, and hanging hinged side frame parts 9 9, adapted to rest upon the rails and inclose the bed.

When applied to the bedstead, the hinged sides can be folded over and upon the top frame to give access for occupying the bed. When applied, the side hinged frame parts will be supported upon the tops of the side rails, the foot hinged frame part will rest upon the foot rail or slat between the side rails, and the head hinged frame part will hang hehin'd the pillows, thereby making a complete mosquito-bar closure for the bed.

The hinges of the folding top frame part allow it to be turned up and over the fixed part, as in Fig. 3, and either supported upon the headboard or against the wall for access to remove and make up the bed.

The foot and head frame parts are hinged so as to allow them to be folded inward under their frames. The side frames of the fixed frame part are hinged so as to be folded over and upon the top part, and all the hinged parts for the convenience of compactness are hinged so as to be folded together.

The side frames of the fixed and folding parts may fit closely upon the bedstead-rails from post to post, or the bottom bars of these parts may conform to raised corner-pieces fixed to the rails and posts.

The frame parts may be made of metal or wood, and the mosquito bar or netting is fastened within each of the frame parts.

It is important to note that freely hanging the head frame part gives the advantage of causing it to make a closure with the pillows of the bed, while the free hanging of the foot frame part gives the advantage of setting or adjusting it, so that it may be supported either upon the foot-rail or upon a bed-slat within the rails, and in either case thereby form a closure with the foot end of the bed.

The supporting of the hinged side frames directly upon the side rails thereby makes a closure with the side edges of the bed.

In applying the canopyframe the fixed head part is first secured to the bedstead, as stated, and the folding part is then hinged to it, and the two frame part-s become a single structure, or these frame parts may be put together before being applied to the bedstead; but as separate structures they are both formed of folding parts.

The fixed side frame parts at their lower inner corners have stop projections 10, (seen in Figs. 1 and 3,) against which the hanging side frames rest.

I claim 1. In a bedstead mosquito-canopy a mosquito-bar frame composed of two horizontal top frame parts hinged together, each part having a 'ertieally-hinged end frame part and each part having hanging side frame parts, the end hanging head frame part adapted to hang freely on the inner side of the headboard, the end hanging foot frame part ad apted to rest upon the foot-rail, and the said hinged frame parts adapted to rest upon the side rails of the bedstead whereby the mosquito-bar frame maybe supported as a closure for the bed.

2. 111 a bedstead mosquito-canopy, and in combination with the bedstead, a closureforming frame, consisting of a head frame part secured at its top to the headboard and at its inner lower corners to the side rails and having a free-hanging hinged frame part adjaeent to the inner side thereof; and a folding part hinged to the top of the fixed part,

having a free vertically-hanging foot frame part resting upon the foot-rail, and having 'ertically-hanging side rail parts joining the head frame part and resting upon the side rails as a mosquito-bar closure for the bed.

3. In a bedstead mosquito-canopy, and in combination with the bedstead, a mosquitobar frame consisting of a head closure part fixed to the bedstead and a folding foot closure part, the head closure part comprising side parts and a freely-hanging head end part between said sides, and the foot closure part comprising hinged side frame adapted to be supported on the siderails and a foot hinged part adapted to be supported and adjusted at the foot of the bed within the hinged side frames.

4. A mosquito-canopy frame for bedsteads, consisting of two top frame parts the head part being of less length than the foot part and hinged to it, the head part having an end hinged frame part adapted to be folded under and inward and side hinged frame parts adapted to be folded over and upon the top frame part, the foot frame part having an end frame part adapted to be folded under and inward and side frame parts adapted to be folded over and upon the top frame part and the two top frame parts adapted to be folded over and upon each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS J. POWERS.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL S. CLEMENT, THOMAS M. LoUP. 

